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Ox Alpha, a "stealth model" from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter (Rohail Saleem/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/a-my…

A Mysterious AI Lab Is Offering 100 Trillion Free Tokens/Day For Its Ox Alpha Model, As Evidence Points To Zhipu’s Unreleased GLM
Ox Alpha's 1-million-token context window and video inputs hint at a heavily upgraded GLM-class model that's undergoing live testing.

I have put out some music.
Feel free to give it a listen.
https://robertloganmusic.bandcamp.com/album/otherscapes-unreleased-works-2006-2026

„Stalker 2“: Update 2.0 bringt neue Engine und überarbeitete Grafik
„Stalker 2“ wechselt mit Update 2.0 auf eine neuere Version der Unreal Engine. Vegetation und Beleuchtung sehen anders aus, die Performance legt zu.

„Stalker 2“: Update 2.0 bringt neue Engine und überarbeitete Grafik
„Stalker 2“ wechselt mit Update 2.0 auf eine neuere Version der Unreal Engine. Vegetation und Beleuchtung sehen anders aus, die Performance legt zu.

Rivers across the European continent,
including some of its most important waterways,
are drying up as an unrelenting heatwave refuses to go away.
The Danube, Rhine, Elbe and Loire have all dried up
as the continent has baked through this summer,
leaving a question mark on drinking water supplies, trade via navigation and even recreational activities.
The Danube, the second-longest river in Europe after the Volga, has fallen to its lowest level in 30 years…

Rhine, Danube, Elbe, Loire. Some of Europe’s biggest rivers are going dry this summer
Europe’s major rivers – the Rhine, Danube, Elbe and Loire – are drying up amid a relentless summer heatwave, threatening drinking water supplies, disrupting trade routes and halting ferry and cargo traffic across the continent.

I don't usually like to talk about records until they're fully out and I can hear all of it, but this first single from the Open Mike Eagle/Kenny Segal joint coming in August called 'DOOMED!' is fucking UNREAL and I can't get over it. Super psyched to hear the rest. The beat, the flow of this, fuuuuck what IS it even
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The Cramps - "Gravest Gravy"
Newly unearthed, long-lost archival studio album officially released today.

The 12-track collection consists of raw, previously unreleased 1977 recordings from the band's historic sessions at Ardent Studios in Memphis, produced by Big Star legend Alex Chilton.
Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye stepped in to spearhead the tape conversion, curation, and preservation process.

#Steady #Klimacrew
In der #Modebranche führt der Einsatz generativer KI zu starken Verwerfunden.
Dabei geht es nicht nur um den

KI-Modewerbung: Perfektion um jeden Preis?
Modehäuser setzen KI für Werbung ein – doch unrealistischen Schönheitsideale und Jobverluste sorgen für Diskussionen.

#Genealogy question: How far do you build out unrelated people? Wife's GGGF was married 2x. Re the 2d wife: He was her 2d of four husbands, married 3 years. I've got her FindAGrave which seems well built out. Is it worth it to spend much more effort on her beyond that? I feel like no.

„Größter Diebstahl von Arbeitskraft“: Intern Kritik bei Microsoft an KI-Training
Die New York Times hat gegen OpenAI und Microsoft wegen unerlaubter Verwendung von Texten fürs KI-Training geklagt. Intern werden die Argumente dort geteilt.

„Größter Diebstahl von Arbeitskraft“: Intern Kritik bei Microsoft an KI-Training
Die New York Times hat gegen OpenAI und Microsoft wegen unerlaubter Verwendung von Texten fürs KI-Training geklagt. Intern werden die Argumente dort geteilt.

OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/safety-alignment-long-horizon-models